New US book on emerging markets names Dubai as a top opportunity but is that a warning signal?
Agora Financial’s managing editor Chris Mayer is an indefatigable traveller and wonders the globe in his new book ‘World Right Side Up: Investing in Six Continents’. He alights in Dubai and finds great opportunity for…
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Wealth of little use if you don’t invest in your health
The two inescapable realities of life are supposed to be death and taxes. Middle Eastern investors can often avoid taxes because they live outside of the penal taxation systems of the West. Postponing the end…
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Many airlines to fail due to high fuel prices says Emirates but its expansion plan is also deadly
The President of Dubai Government’s rapidly expanding Emirates Airlline, Tim Clark told Bloomberg that more carriers will go bankrupt due to high fuel costs and a global economic slowdown. That does then beg the question…
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Restaurant review: Alfie’s top British fine dining in the Jumeriah Emirates Towers
It is always a pleasure to review a brand new restaurant shortly after its opening. Everything from the tablecloths to the waiters and waitresses are new to the job. The cutlery is still shiny, the…
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4,500 more staff for Emirates Group as Dubai recovery continues this year
Emirates Group will add around 4,500 to its present 60,000 staff this year in an expansion program that includes delivery of two new aircraft a month, adding to the 21 A380 superjumbo aircraft already in…
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Golden Chariot Awards celebrate Dubai’s growing trade links with Russia
The Dubai chapter of the Russian Business Council this week brought the prestigious Russian Golden Chariot Awards to the city to celebrate the growing trade links with the UAE, including the first direct flight to…
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Work resumes on Marina 101 to be Dubai’s tallest residential and hotel apartment tower
If you seek the proof then look aloft: the cranes are working again on Marina 101 in the northen end of the Dubai Marina which is already taller than the Empire State Building in New…
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What is the real value of Etihad Airways to Abu Dhabi?
Any commercial company that has only just turned a profit after nine years of high investment would be considered a failure or at best a lucky survivor.
Yet when Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways posts a…
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Seat sale as Emirates expands aggressively for market share
Emirates Airline is slashing up to 30 per cent off the cost of its flights in a three-day seat sale that started yesterday. The carrier is adding routes all over the world this year and…
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Why rich investors are relocating to Dubai as a safe haven
If you go down to the Dubai Marina today you will find more than 430 yachts parked up, by far the largest assembly of such boats in the Middle East. Last year more luxury cars…
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